Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 44 events. Showing 31 - 44.
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- President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
- George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated.
- Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
- Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
- The Chiado area in Lisbon is partially destroyed by a fire.
- Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.
- Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female Cabinet Secretary.
- Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union
- The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August–November, during the Croatian War of Independence
- Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
- Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
- The Tłı̨chǫ land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
- Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
- Six people die and 22 are injured when a train derails in Huimanguillo, Tabasco, Mexico.
